Laura Germine, PhD

Laura Germine is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Health Technology at McLean Hospital. She is also Technical Director of the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry. She earned a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley in 2004, a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychopathology from Harvard University in 2012, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychiatric Genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Germine’s research is oriented around understanding cognitive functioning in health and disease, as well as building technology for studying cognition and behavior using the web and mobile devices. She created one of the first online neuropsychological laboratories in 2005, which later became TestMyBrain.org.